{"id":257625,"date":"2021-07-30T08:48:22","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T08:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=210430"},"modified":"2021-07-30T08:48:22","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T08:48:22","slug":"lets-reinvent-the-u-s-military-for-real-national-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/07\/30\/lets-reinvent-the-u-s-military-for-real-national-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s Reinvent the U.S. Military for Real National Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a ROTC cadet and an Air Force officer, I was a tiny part of America\u2019s vast Department of Defense (DoD) for 24 years until I retired and returned to civilian life as a history professor.\u00a0 My time in the military ran from the election of Ronald Reagan to the reign of George W. Bush  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/07\/30\/lets-reinvent-the-u-s-military-for-real-national-defense\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/07\/30\/lets-reinvent-the-u-s-military-for-real-national-defense\/\">Let\u2019s Reinvent the U.S. Military for Real National Defense<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/07\/30\/lets-reinvent-the-u-s-military-for-real-national-defense\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a ROTC cadet and an Air Force officer, I was a tiny part of America\u2019s vast Department of Defense (DoD) for 24 years until I retired and returned to civilian life as a history professor.\u00a0 My time in the military ran from the election of Ronald Reagan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":696,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257625"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/696"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257625"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257903,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257625\/revisions\/257903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}